Quotes About Validation

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

Only by being useful or talented, and receiving external recognition, would I achieve personhood. I couldn't imagine a world where I was a worthwhile person by dint of mere existence; I felt like I needed to earn it and prove it every day. Don't worry, this feeling went away after only several decades.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

TV. It's like if you're not on it, you don't exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.

Yeah," Smalls said. "That's the guy.

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

No one wants advice--only corroboration.

Lately I never felt good enough. I always wanted to explain to him that I was not good. And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it?

Lately I never felt good enough. I always wanted to explain to him that I was not good. And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it? I guess so. Maybe that's it.

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

Go Out of Your Way to Praise Those "Quiet" Performers Who Make Things Happen.

It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.

And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.

Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Don't chase accomplishments , people or positions to find your worth. You're already loved as you are by the Father.